United States Federal Circuit

A jury verdict finding that defendant did not infringe two of plaintiff's patents, concerning data storage systems that allow users to store and retrieve large files such as movies, is vacated and remanded for a new trial where: 1) the narrow construction given by the district court to the jury based on what the court determined to be a prosecution disclaimer was incorrect; and 2) the error on this central trial issue requires setting aside the non-infringement verdicts, which were general verdicts as to each patent, because defendant has not argued that the evidence compels a finding of non-infringement independently of the construction error.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/01/29

Judges

• TARANTO

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel